Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 21:54:20 -0700

From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET

Subject: Re: ink pen



Tom--

Did you ever hear "atomic pen"? On the border in South Texas right

after the war, advertising seemed to link ball-point pens with the ultramodern

technological surge typified by the atomic bomb. In Mexico, they are still

called "plumas atomicas", but I don't know whether the Valley usage was a

leak-over from Mexico, though I doubt it.

--Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)